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Crisis in BJP a passing phase, says Sushma
PTI | New Delhi
The bad patch the BJP was going through due to successive election defeats and its internal problems, including the Karnataka crisis, was a passing phase, senior leader Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday and was confident that it will emerge stronger soon.
“In every political party, there are good and bad phases. This is a passing phase. We will come out of it soon. You can take this as a prophecy,” Swaraj said in reply to a question on the internal squabbles in the BJP and its defeats in recent elections.
She was speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit here.
When asked specifically about the problems in the BJP unit in Karnataka, where the Reddy brothers are claiming the support of 60 party MLAs and demanding that Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa should step down, Swaraj said the crisis would be resolved “in a day or two”.
She refuted reports that the party central leadership had asked her to placate the dissidents. “I have not been deputed to talk to them. M Venkaiah Naidu and Arun Jaitley have been given this responsibility and they are in touch with the group,” she said.
In reply to another question on whether mining interests of Bellary brothers were the reason behind the dissidence, Swaraj said, “In this crisis, there is no mining interest.”
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